Flirting with Disaster (Jack)

[Teagan Rae Brooks]

Teagan should have known better than to decide going canoeing on her own would be a good idea, but she had her dupes to help, right? She was pushing it down by the water, three of her duplicates at her side. Ambitious dupe, annoyingly flirty dupe and another one that Teagan had yet to pinpoint which part of her it represented. "Alright guys. We just have to push it into the water," she told them. They'd been rather hard to work with as they all conflicted in personalities, representing a different part of Teagan and she most definitely had a headache.

Also, it was sort of lame going canoeing with your own duplicates, wasn't it? She'd pledged to try and make more friends on this trip and that's exactly what she was going to do. She had to.

They pushed the canoe in the water and Teagan saw flirty dupe start running off in another direction out of the corner of her eye. She rolled her eyes and turned to ambitous dupe who was already sitting in the canoe with an annoyed look that said 'let's go already.'

"Hey!" Flirty dupe was shouting at some guy in the distance. "How would you like to go canoeing with me?"

Another roll of Teagan's eyes. "With us, you mean," she corrected her, squinting and trying to see who it was.

[Jack McCarthy]

Did Jack ever mention how much he hated camping? Because he really…really hated camping.

It was so boring, especially for a man like Jack Mccarthy who enjoyed his creature comforts. I mean why enjoy the great outdoors in the flesh when you could easily just do it from the comfort of your living room without the added bullshit like uncomfortable cabins or annoying bugs trying to give you HIV or whatever they give off.

Jack was trying to improve his mood by going on a mid afternoon stroll and try to clear his head, maybe find a suitable place to dump his stash of various equipment he managed to smuggle on this trip.

But Jack’s thoughts were interrupted by the sight of a girl walking up to him and asking him to join her on a canoe trip. Jack wasn’t exactly the most adventurous of souls and he didn’t exactly consider being on a very uncomfortable boat…but then again she was flirting with him so….

“Meh. I’ve got nothing better to do, let’s paddle that water, like were on a porn site”

[Teagan Rae Brooks]

Of course, Teagan had just managed to get the boat in the water and now her duplicate had invited some random guy to tag along. When she looked back at the canoe, it was gently floating in the water, two of her duplicates having disappeared, as if to leave her on her own. She rolled her eyes. "Bitches," she groaned under her breath as the guy and her duplicate came closer.

She crossed her arms and scrutinized the guy, not really sure how to take what he'd said, although her duplicate laughed, a little too much in Teagan's opinion. "I am really, really sorry about her," she said, jerking a thumb in the direction of her duplicate. It wasn't as if Teagan couldn't be flirty, but her duplicates tended to be exaggerations of certain parts of herself and this duplicate was no different.

"Have you ever been canoeing?" she asked him, holding out a paddle to him.

[Jack McCarthy]

Jack, smirked as the girl’s laugh, as it seemed to confirm in Jack’s thought that he was “In there” For lack of a better phrase. Of course they way she was looking at him and the way she laughed gave him a fair indication that she was feeling his vibes.

She lead him to her canoe where he was greeted with the surprising sight of seeing….the same girl in the canoe? Confused Jack looked at both the girl in front of her and the girl beside her, before momentary casting his eyes to the heavens and muttering a quick thank up to the heavens.

Probability manipulation. You got to love it!

Twins! Twins! This was the dream. Who knows maybe if he played his cards right hr make been involved in a threesome by the end of the day, the first one was a done deal. But this other one he was unsure of it. Jack waved off her question, about his experience

“Ah, how hard can it be, just beat the shit out of the water with a big stick”

[Teagan Rae Brooks]

The guy didn't seem particularly bothered by her duplicate, and Teagan found that a bit odd, especially since flirty dupe was very obvious about her flirting and it was rather annoying. Either he was flattered or really just enjoyed any sort of attention. Still, she'd appreciate his company.

He was looking back and forth between her and her duplicate and standing in the canoe, she put her hands on her hips and looked at him, tilting her head innocently. "What? Haven't you heard of duplication?" she asked. "You probably thought we were twins, huh? Well, there are a lot more of me where that came from." She gestured towards flirty dupe that had moved closer to the guy.

"He's right," Flirty Dupe declared. "How hard can it be? You just paddle! It's child's play." Did she mention that flirty dupe also had a bitchy attitude? Man!

Teagan rolled her eyes. "Well if you think you're so good at it, let's see what you've got." Teagan had been to plenty of summer camps before, back in middle school and elementary school. They often had canoe races, so she'd be the judge of his skill. "By the way, I'm Teagan."

[Jack McCarthy]

Ohhh…Duplicates, you know anywhere else that would seem crazy but only here did that make more sense then identical twins…Hammel was a seriously weird place at the end of the day when you really think about it. Not that Jack ever really thought about it.

Jack honestly didn’t see any downside to duplication, he would love to be able to clone himself. At least then he could actually hang out with a person that can hold his drink and could actually take a joke….How many clones could this girl produce? Maybe with just the two of them, they had the making of a pretty wild party.

Jack nods in agreement with the girl’s “clone” liking her more and more, “See? She get’s it, this canon shit is a piece of piss. I like her style” pointing at the clone. He defiantly felt an energy building here between him and the clone, he was liking where this was going.

“Jack McCarthy, meetcha!” Jack said happily. “Here’s a thought, why are we expected to paddle? I mean, what can’t you just summon up a few clones and hey presto! they do all the work while were on easy street.”

[Teagan Rae Brooks]

It was always weird when people met one of her duplicates first. Because they made the first impression and often times Teagan felt overshadowed by her own duplicates which were really just parts of herself. It was strange and not a very common problem. Oh well, let them think what they wanted. Her dupe and Jack would be complaining about paddling in no time.

"Because I'm not a lazy ass and I actually like to go canoeing," Teagan pointed out as she put her paddle in the water, taking a seat in the small canoe. Her duplicate sat behind her and she guessed because she wanted to get closer to Jack. Oh how she wished she could absorb the annoying bitch of a dupe. "That, and they don't really like to take orders."

[Jack McCarthy]

Oh…Jack thought disconcertingly Tegan was one of those busy bodies that always had to do everything, one of those girls that would climb mountains in the morning, canon in the evening and just to finish the day off she would do one million push-ups Gah. Why couldn’t the flirty Tegan be the real tegan and the real Tegan be the fake one, that’ll be awesome!.

“Ok…ok…geez…” Jack said defensively as he got into the boat “I’m just saying it would be a hell of a lot easier way to do it” Jack grabbed his paddle, he wanted for both Teagan’s to get in before he slowly crept his paddle along before poking the Teagan at the front with the paddle before withdrawing it quickly before he was caught, so when Tegan looked, she’ll see a completely innocent Jack, with no paddle in his hands. When Tegan looks away Jack makes it a point to wink at the Tegan clone in the hopes of amusing her

[Teagan Rae Brooks]

"Yeah, it would," Teagan agreed with a shrug. "And apparently it's a miracle you didn't get my power." She rolled her eyes at him. She'd debated whether or not to say that out loud for a whole second and it was a no-brainer. Who was this guy anyway? Some typical apathetic, lazy high school guy who took every chance he got to make others do things for him? Probably.

Of course that's who her dupe attracted. Did that mean that was the kind of guys Teagan was attracted to. When her duplicates acted a certain way or did things, it made Teagan question herself, since after all, they were apart of her.

She began to dig her paddle into the water, hoping the other two would at least help. And then she felt something dig into her back slightly. Whipping around, her crazy hair flipping over her shoulder, she saw an innocent looking Jack and rolled her eyes. Honestly, that could have been him or her dupe. She didn't put it past either of them. Although her dupe was just holding the paddle idly, not even bothering to help paddle.

When she turned back to face the front and continue paddling, she heard her dupe laugh, rather high-pitched and loud. "Why don't you like him? He's funny!"

Yeah right. She wished she knew how to absorb her duplicates on command just to get rid of her.

[Jack McCarthy]

“Miracle?!” Jack scoffed. “More like tragedy. I could get a lot done with a clone…I mean can you even think of what I could do with another me?”

As he spoke Jack shot the Tegan specific look before winking.

“Can you imagine what two me’s can do?”

Jack was of course implying a three-some, which in all honestly Jack would be totally cool with that, I mean it wouldn’t be gay if you’re fucking yourself right? Thinking about it made Jack head hurt…

Of course now that he had his fun playing around with Teagan he now had to actually paddle…which in all honestly would be quite the new experience, he didn’t really know how to go about paddling. But he build up a solid system of hyperactively slapping his paddle stick against the water and hoped that was having an effect.

“Yeah why don’t you like me I’m hilarious and handsome! What’s not to love?”

[Teagan Rae Brooks]

"You would use my power for ridiculous reasons. Not to mention completely perverted reasons," Teagan told him flatly, wrinkling her nose. "And I don't like what one of you does. I don't want that doubled." She continued to paddle, watching as Jack finally dipped his paddle into the water. Her dupe was still just sitting there, smiling stupidly at Jack.

"I want to know what two of you can do," she said, in a sultry voice.

"My god," Teagan groaned. "And there's a lot not to love. First of all, you're obnoxious."

[Jack McCarthy]

At Teagan’s words Jack’s brow begin to furrow and he continued to paddle. Ohhhhh well. What’s got her panties in a bunch, Jack has been nothing but a pleasant gentleman since he first stepped on this vessel and Tegan had treated him like he was an open vile of small poxs.

“What is the point of have freaky bad-ass powers if you can’t abuse the shit out of it? What do you expect me to do go out and fight crime?!”

Jack eyes lit up as an idea occurred to him.

“Actually that’s not a bad idea, you and me could team up and be straight up super heroes fighting evil where ever it appears. I could be “The fortunate Son” " This isn't your lucky day mother fucker" Pretty cool right?” and you? You’ll be….

Jack squinted his eyes together as he tried to think of a suitable super hero, before his head snapped forward.

“Got it. Ready for this? The cloning bitch. "Now you see her...and now you see her again...and again...and again" Who’s going to fuck with those two? I mean I can track down the bad guys and punch them in the balls or something awesome and you could, like surrounded them and…I don’t know bitch them to death….What?! I’m joking! I’m fucking around. For shits and giggles. You know, trying to get a raise out of you.”

[Teagan Rae Brooks]

Teagan rolled her eyes, still paddling as she heard Jack go off on a tangent. She slowly stopped rowing, her arm going still and she crossed her arms over her chest, regarding him with a questioning look. "And why does my name have to have bitch in it?" she asked him, but really she knew he was just trying to get her to freak out. If she punched him, it would probably turn him on. Weirdo. "You know, I'm not a total stick in the mud, I like to have fun, but honestly, I feel like you never stop talking. And I thought I talked a lot."

Her dupe was looking between them and in an instant, Teagan absorbed her. She wasn't sure if it was because her dupe wasn't getting enough attention or if it was just a random occurrence but she was kind of relieved, even if she was actually stuck alone with Jack in the middle of a lake now.

[Jack McCarthy]

Jack rolled his eyes at Teagan, gah who the hell cared if she was called a bitch, why would she should easy to irritated, most of the time he would consider this type of thing the purest form of entertaining. But this was too easy Where was the challenge?

“Because you just are, get over it. Stop looking at the minor details and focus on the big picture. Nobody’s going to afraid of “Clone girl” or whatever, but whose going to mess with “The cloning bitch”?! She sounds bad ass! Look at it like this; which kid is more likely to be bulled? A kid called Bradley or SKULLFUCKER!

Jack face froze in a clear look of bemusement as Teagan made her clone disappear from sight, Jack put down the paddle and gestured frantically to the place where she once stood.

“Why the hell did you do that?! I was in there. She was digging my vibe. You cock block!”

Jack crossed his arms and pouted slowly beginning to rock the canoe back and forward, not enough to roll it over, though. It almost seemed as if he wasn’t aware he was doing it.

[Teagan Rae Brooks]

Contrary to how much of a total jack-ass Jack was being, Teagan did get what he was saying. It was a lot more intense of a name. It held confidence. "Maybe I want people to underestimate me so I can sneak up on them and kick their ass," she mused. She knew she was strong-willed and could hold her ground.

"And what the hell do you mean what the hell?! I can't control my duplicates yet, when they materialize and when I absorb them. I haven't been at Hammel long enough to learn that. So calm down, I wasn't trying to ruin your...vibe, or whatever." Besides, the thought was disgusting.

They'd both dropped their paddles at this point and the canoe had come to a stand-still in the middle of the lake. "What are you doing?" she asked, slightly alarmed as she felt the canoe rock.